Improvement in cork-extractors



UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

C. ROSENBERRY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORK-EXTRACTORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. SSJ, dated October 1G, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, C. RosENBEnnY, of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cork-Drawers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to produce a device by means of which corks could be ex tracted from bottles and other vessels conveniently, even it' those vessels contain some liquid.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

The device can be made of any kind of wire. Four wires are twisted together, their lower portions being,` free, so as to spread out, their ends bent inside in a hook shape, and the whole forming a wire claw, M. A wire, A, havin g a ring, B, at one end, slides over the wires of the claw M, and may close or loosen it at will. It passes through a ring, C, formed by the twisted wires, and has itself a ring, D, at its other end.

The opera tion consists in the following: The ring B is pressed downward and closes the wire claw. The device is introduced into a bottle, the ring` is shifted upward, and the claw adjusted to the cork inside. Then, by by drawiing` the ring downward again, the cork is seized by the claw and is drawn out.

It makes no difference in the operation whether the bottle contains sonie liquid or is empty.

I do not claim the wires twisted and arranged in a claw, the saine being known and used; but

What I do claiin, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The sliding` wire A, with its ring B, for the purpose of closing,` or loosening the claw M, in combination with the saine, the whole constructed and operating` in the manner herein described and speeited.

C. ROSEN B ERRY.

Witnesses:

J. B. TURCHIN, A. MAUFF. 

